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Patented Feb. s, 1881.

.FETERS4 PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASWNGTM` D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY C. BARTLE'IT AND JOHN BURD, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,658, dated February8, 1881. Application tiled January 3, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, H. O. BARTLETT and JOHN BURD, of Columbus, in thecounty ot` Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new andAuseful Improvements in Ohurns; and we do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make anduse it, reference being had to the accom panying drawings, which formpart of this specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in churns; and it consists in adetachable watercylinder, which is placed in the center of the bottomofthe churn, in combination with a hollow perforated dasher which titsdown over the cylinder, as will be more fully described. hereinafter.-

The object of our invention is to use a removable water-cylinder in thechurn for the.

purpose ot' raising and lowering the temperature ofthe cream, and whichcylinder will act in connection with the hollow dasher to break theglobules of the cream.

Figure l represents a vertical section of' a churn embodying ourinvention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the churn, taken upon thedotted line .fr m of Fig. 1.

A represen ts the churn-body, of any desired construction, and which hasa circular notched holdin g-iiange or keeper, O, secured to its bottom.Upon the center ot' this bottom is placed the removable water-cylinderD, which is provided with the ears or projections F, which pass downthrough the -two notches in the keeper O, and which, when the cylinderis given a partial turn, catch under the flange so as to hold thecylinder in place. This cylinder is to be lilled with hot or cold water,so as to raise or lower the temperature of the cream, and is maderemovable from the churn for the purpose of being conveniently filledand emptied and to allow the churn to be washed out. In the top ot' thiscylinderis made an opening, 'which is closed by a removable screw-plug,O.

The dasher G is cylindrical in shape, of a slightly greater depth thanthe water-cylinder is high, and enough larger in diameter than thecylinder to flt down over its top and to allow the cream to rise upwardin the dasher to be forced out ot' the small holes in its sides. Aroundthe lower edge of the dasher is form ed a perforated lange, I, whichjust lits the inside diameter oi' the body A, so as to act as a guide tokeep the dasher always in line with the water-cylinder, and up throughwhich a portion of the cream is forced. As the dasher descends a portionot' the cream is forced through the holes in the flange I, and a portionis forced up into the dasher and out of the holes in its sides, and asthe dasher is raised'upward the cream runs down through the holes in theflange and in the sides ot' the body, down to the bottom ofthe churn.The cream is thus constantly broken into line streams or currents, andthe butter quickly liberated or formed.

Having thus described our invention, we claim- In a churn, thecombination of the body A, having the notched circular Bange or keeper Osecured to its bottom, the removable watercylinder D, provided with theears F, for catching under the iiange, and the hollow perforated dasherhaving the pertora'ted ilange I around its edges, the parts beingarranged for operation, substantially as shown.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our handsthis 23d day of December, 1880.

HENRY CLAY BAR'ILE'IT. JOHN BURD. Witnesses:

F. C. STRANG, F. E. BURDELL.

